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Blade runner
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Mareike Heiss, Katarina Stefanakos, Charleen Meißner
Structure
• Do androids dream of electric sheep?
o Philip K. Dick
o Historical background
o 2nd scene
o Relation between characters
o Plot
o Voigt - Kampff test
o 5th scene
• Blade Runner
o Ridley Scott
o Comparison: film and book
o Scene – ‘Tears in rain’
o analysis
• Conclusion
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Philip K. Dick
• * 16th of December 1928 in
Chicago
• difficult childhood
• 14-years old: wrote his first novel
• interested in Philosophy, Physics &
Religion
• 1951: sold first novel
• 1952-1955: 70 short stories
• depressions & drug habit
• † 2nd of March 1982 in Santa Ana
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Chapter 2
Setting of the story:
-San Francisco 1992/2021
-after Nuclear War
-emigration to Mars (“New America”)
-dark, frightening atmosphere
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Rick Deckard
• Human (?)
• ‘bounty hunter’ or
‘blade runner’
• Has a romantic
affair with Rachel
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Rachel
• ‘android’ or
‘replicant’
• Has a romantic
affair with Deckard
• Possession of Rosen/
Tyrell
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Eldon Rosen/Tyrell
• Human
• Owner of ‘Rosen
concern’ and
Rachel
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
‘androids’ or ‘replicants'
• Generation Nexus 5
• Look exactly like
humans
• Live only 4 years
• Are made to guide
people on Mars & to
work for them
• Are forbidden to travel
on earth
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Pris and Roy
• Pris looks like Rachel
(in book)
• Roy is the leader of
the androids
• Both live with JR
Isidore or JF
Sebastian
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
JR Isodore/JF Sebastian
• ‘second class’
human
• Works for ‘Rosen
concern’
• Live with Pris and
Roy
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Plot
• After atomic war earth is
destroyed
• Lots of animals die out
• Healthy humans emigrate with
androids the mars
• Androids are forbidden to live on
earth
• ‘bounty hunter’ hunt androids
• Six androids came to earth to
find their inventor
• Deckard have to find and
eliminate them
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Voight-Kampff test
• Test to identify
androids
• The machine notices
emotional reactions
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Chapter 5
• Rachael is tested with Voight-Kampff-Test
• Machine seems to fail
• Eldon Rosen tries to blackmail Rick Deckard
Final question:
“My briefcase is made out of one hundred percent
genuine human baby hide”
Blade Runner
Ridley Scott
• 30th of November 1937
in England
• Subjects of study:
- graphic design
- painting
• famous director:
- Gladiator
- Blade Runner
Comparison: book and film
Book
• “Androids”
• animals important
• “Bounty Hunter”
• question of humanity
in Deckard´s
thoughts
• Deckard is married
• J.R. Isidore
• atmosphere: sacastic
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Film
“Replicants”
animals not relevant
“Blade Runner”
question of humanity in
the story
Deckard´s family status
not clear
J.F. Sebastian
atmosphere:
melancholical
Scene: ‘tears in rain’
Analysis
• What did you see
in the scene?
• What kind of
atmosphere is
created?
• What does the
pigeon
symbolise?
Scene: ‘tears in rain’
Analysis
• atmosphere: dark,
rainy, cold
• Roy is stronger than
Deckard
• pigeon = freedom
• can androids be
human?
 Roy has emotions,
memories
& saves Rick´s life
• pigeon flies away 
Rick´s soul is free
Conclusion
- book & film recommendable
- book & film should be seen independent
“Reality is that which, when
you stop believing in it,
doesn´t go away.”
Philip K. Dick
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick
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http://www.philipkdick.de/
http://www.gradesaver.com/do-androids-dream-of-electricsheep/study-guide/section8/
http://www.philipkdickfans.com/literary-criticism/reviews/review-byjason-koornick-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep-1968/
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